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Ash's Ashes @uponashensands.bsky.social · 7h

"Often in books where romance is central, our romantic leads come to the page with no apparent pasts—no exes, no awkward one night stands—unless, of course, those pasts are the villains or deliver narratively necessary trauma. They are narratively, if not literally, virginal." GREAT read, damn

Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 13h

ICYMI: My latest essay is out @reactorsff.bsky.social!

“It is impossible to consider gratuitous anything that can explore such a wide range of human being. Sex manages to be a reckoning with the body, the self; with desire in myriad ways; a reckoning with the forbidden…”

Everyone’s in Love, but Nobody’s Horny - Reactor

C.L. Clark discusses writing sex, desire, and queerness in Nicola Griffith's Ammonite

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 13h

ICYMI: My latest essay is out @reactorsff.bsky.social!

“It is impossible to consider gratuitous anything that can explore such a wide range of human being. Sex manages to be a reckoning with the body, the self; with desire in myriad ways; a reckoning with the forbidden…”

Everyone’s in Love, but Nobody’s Horny - Reactor

C.L. Clark discusses writing sex, desire, and queerness in Nicola Griffith's Ammonite

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Birbieghoul @birbiegorl.bsky.social · 23h

C.L. Clark ( @clclark.bsky.social ) is my religion. Let’s fucking go. I’m so (not emotionally) ready to devour this

The sovereign, a book by C.L. Clark. The cover contains two beautiful tragic lesbians

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 1d

prologue and first chapter are up now! meet the protagonist of my epic fantasy: the saddest grad student on earth 😂

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 1d

Calling all lady knights, anxious historians, and those doomed by the narrative...

Reactor is THRILLED to be hosting a serialization of The Everlasting by @alixeharrow.bsky.social!! Join us every Tuesday through October 28th for an extended preview, starting today!

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The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow: Prologue and Chapter 1 - Reactor

The lady-knight whose legend built a nation, and the cowardly historian sent through time to ensure she plays her part…

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Millie the Bookworm📚 @milliethebookworm.bsky.social · 2d

Fate’s Bane by C.L. Clark @clclark.bsky.social
What a beautiful and bittersweet fantasy romance novella!! 🌱 #booksky

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 2d

they really don’t 😮‍💨 neither do quads

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 2d

just saying. it’s true, guys.

Ariana Victoria @justairythings.bsky.social · 2d

I mean the opening question in your interview is "Talk to me about the strap-on."
Which combined with your impeccable taste has me utterly intrigued.

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 2d

😏 no, just pick it up bc i have impeccable taste and you trust me.

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 2d

also, at this point, i think it won’t be a cl clark picture unless there are kettlebells in the background. it’s never intentional, it’s just that they’re all in my office. 🤷‍♂️

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 2d

for now, you have me five books in the hole, with three more officially on the way and far too many in taking up real estate in the back of my mind.

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 2d

also, since last week, i’ve been thinking about what it means to have a career in fiction and how that’s balanced out with notions of art. that’s resulted in this post.

i’m very curious what i will think of this question ten years from now, and twenty, and more.

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Career…or craft?

Are they mutually exclusive?

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 2d

Not only is the book amazing but it’s thrilling to see the thought that went into work if you’re interested in lesbian/butchness/genderqueerness in literature—that whole space. We talked about it in our interview last year:
clclarkwrites.com/june-2025-cl...

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brian says boo @brianthegleeman.bsky.social · 2d

and read more books

Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 3d

strength train. and walk. often.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 3d

strength train. and walk. often.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for saying so, and for spreading the word!

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 3d

I adore this book. @clclark.bsky.social is so good.

Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 3d

If you haven't read The Unbroken by CL Clark, it's brilliant and on sale for $4.99 at Kobo (and presumably elsewhere). SO GOOD + the final bk in the trilogy just came out! Highly rec'd. Military fantasy deeply immersed in colonialism, two mesmerizing women, a queen and a conscript soldier. SO GOOD.

Screenshot of the AMAZING cover art for The Unbroken by CL Clark, showing a muscular black woman standing in a moorish arch doorway with her bare arms extended to touch the post on either side, wearing what looks like black leather armor and a sword in a belt, with a blurry dusty yellow scene behind the arch. Text in white near the top reads, "Every empire demands revolution."

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 3d

🙏 thanks, john!

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ScarletBea @scarletbea.bsky.social · 3d

2025-36. The Unbroken, by @clclark.bsky.social - 5/5
I re-read book 1, now that I have the entire trilogy in my hands to read in one long go.
Still an amazing book about colonialism, compromise, faith, love (in all shades) and sad realism.

Book cover: Touraine, one of the main characters, a black woman with short hair in a vest, with stretched arms touching the sides of an arab-style arch

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Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 4d

One time my very southern maternal grandmother said somebody looked like both a "young chicken" and a "skinned squirrel" and I'll be DAMNED if that wasn't exactly what the person looked like 😭

B. @missxbri.bsky.social · 4d

Old black southerners got some insults on them boy. Cause what you mean I couldn’t find my ass with my hands in my back pockets?

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 4d

i actually know the name of every cologne they wear; i based them off of real scents. one day soon, perhaps, i will share them. 😈

Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 4d

"Sabine smelled of autumn, apples and woodsmoke, warm spices."

What do we need to do to get a @clclark.bsky.social @allylouks.bsky.social crossover event on how smells convey personality in fiction?

I know that Luca washes her hair in rose soap, and Touraine wears a smoky cologne.

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SoloRPGList @solorpglist.com · 5d

Looking for an amazing solo or duet #TTRPG?
We have over 400 titles listed in our index over at solorpglist.com

#SoloRPG #DuetRPG #TTRPGfolks #GMless #Worldbuilding #Journaling #DungeonCrawl #TabletopRPG

Solo RPG List - Find Solo and Duet TTRPGs

Discover amazing solo and duet tabletop role-playing games that can be played with—or without—dice, tarot cards, playing cards, pen and paper, etc.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 5d

As a frequent user of the ponds, it disgusts me that terfs are taking a beautiful place and pouring their hate into it. Please fill in this survey if you want to protect this space for all women and make trans women feel. PS the ducks think terfs suck. And the friendly fox. And the crows.

Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 7d

The Gender Critical have already inundated this survey with their disgusting views on banning trans people from using the ponds.

Would be a shame if we inundated with trans positive views on not banning trans people.

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Public Consultation on Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds | Commonplace

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 5d

thank YOU all for coming down! it was so good to actually chat a bit (yes, maybe malkieri con just has to happen, ok, ok)

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 5d

🎶 women loving women
doing women things
like fighting wars
and overthrowing kings 🎶

brian says boo @brianthegleeman.bsky.social · 6d

🎶 Do you like lesbiannns? 🎶

Look, even after working out, you gotta support your bros. Super thrilled for you all to read The Sovereign!!

@clclark.bsky.social

Brian posing by flexing his arm with two books, The Sovereign and Fate’s Bane, by CL Clark. He’s standing in a bookstore and wearing a shirt that says “Deadlifts & Dragons.”

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